minus-squaresaketaco@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How can you explain the Fediverse to someone?linkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoIt isn’t very difficult to understand, or new. Usenet used a similar system of exchange between news servers, and before people had the Internet in their homes (pre- 1990s) BBS systems used RelayNet and FidoNet. linkfedilink
minus-squaresaketaco@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?linkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·11 months agoAnd yet you still can’t ask the device to locate someone. linkfedilink
It isn’t very difficult to understand, or new. Usenet used a similar system of exchange between news servers, and before people had the Internet in their homes (pre- 1990s) BBS systems used RelayNet and FidoNet.